Metabolic syndrome - don’t blame the belly fat
biomedical | cholesterol | diabetes | diet | exercise | fat | health | heart disease | metabolism | obesity
Abdominal fat, the spare tire that many of us carry, has long been implicated as a primary suspect in causing the metabolic syndrome, a cluster of conditions that includes the most dangerous heart attack risk factors: prediabetes, diabetes, high blood pressure, and changes in cholesterol. But with the help of powerful new imaging technologies, a team [...]
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